The Preventable Vision Loss and Blindness Summit 2022

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THE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF THE BLIND
PRESENTS
THE VISION HEALTH MONTH SUMMIT

The Vision Health Month Summit will take place on Monday, May 16 from 4:00 to 5:45 p.m. at Christ Church Cathedral in the Great Hall, located at 414 Sparks Street in Ottawa, Ontario.

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The Summit will feature expert discussion to achieving the vision health community’s call for:

A National Vision Health Strategy that stresses prevention, research, treatment, and rehabilitation of vision loss, the implementation of which requires a coordinated effort on the part of federal, provincial, and territorial governments.
It also stresses that Health Canada establish a Vision Health Desk within the Public Health Agency to clearly focus government efforts on the prevention, research, treatment, and rehabilitation of vision loss.
Finally, it stresses the need for increased Vision Health Research Funding, which is presently woefully inadequate. Canada must invest to find treatments for blinding eye diseases and life-changing technologies for people currently living with vision loss.

SPEAKERS: Carol Hughes, MP, Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing, Ontario, Assistant Deputy Speaker and Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole;

Dr. Keith Gordon, Senior Research Officer, Canadian Council of the Blind;
Dr. Chad Andrews, Director of Research and Policy, College of Optometrists of Ontario; Doug Earle, President and CEO, Fighting Blindness Canada; and leaders and providers from your eye care team.

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The time to act is now. Sign the petition. Let’s stop the crisis of preventable vision loss and blindness.

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